Liberating Meditation

The book is composed of articles and lectures by Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hanna, published over the past 25 years in various Buddhist publications. The articles are organized into three sections — according to the "three pillars" upon which Buddhist practice traditionally rests: "View", "Meditation", and "Action". The texts in the "View" section are dedicated to the philosophical foundations of Buddhism, the second presents the foundation of Buddhist meditation and describes meditative techniques, and in the third, the authors provide advice on how to maintain and use the states achieved through meditation.

Ole and Hanna, of Danish origin, became the first Western students of His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa, the head of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Karma Kagyu, a famous Lama in the Black Crown, in 1969. They spent several years in the Himalayas, learning from the Karmapa and other high lamas, and then, in 1972, His Holiness asked them to return to the West to share the Teachings of the Buddha with anyone who might find it interesting. Thus, the Karma Kagyu Buddhism first came to Europe and then to other continents.